Is it narcissistic or am I bitter?

[coribelle26]

I am curious what you think of this.  One of the teachers at the school where I work/worked is pregnant.  She is one of four pregnant faculty members, though one is still unknown to most people.  It's her first child, as are the other two known staff pregnancies. 

Today she sent around an email saying, "Hey everyone!  I brought in cookies, they're in the break room!"  Each cookie says "[name] is pregnant!"

I think that this is a display of everything that is wrong with Millenials, especially since there are two other current pregnancies ahead of hers that managed to get the word out without baked goods.  I really think that I would have felt the same way before my reproductive woes but I'm starting to have a hard time remembering. 

So.  Do you think your coworkers would give enough of a shit about your uterine contents to want to read it on a cookie?

(Edited because this happened today, not yesterday.  Not that it matters at all except that I worry my brain may be breaking.)

[ElizabethBennet]

She's delusional.

[Deleted]

narcissistic.

/gavel.

[natsnow]

Yep, it's weird.

[pantsparty]

I mean, I'd eat the cookie, but I'd roll my eyes while doing it.

[ginap]

I didn't want to have the conversation with anyone in my office and hid my pregnancy until I was past 20 weeks and someone finally got the balls to ask me (I told those who I was close to). When we found out the sex I will totally cop to making cupcakes (which I am known for in the office) and coloring the cake pink to announce and again just gave them to those who I am friendly with.
I think that the cookie idea is a little over the top but maybe she felt like just saying it once instead of having to have 30 different conversations (I think announcing pregnancies can feel awkward for people).

[lime]

Were these leftover from a shower?

[flex]

/hides "hey everyone I'm postmenopausal!!" cookies behind back

Personally I think it's a rather odd idea to do that.

[pillowpants]

I'd scrape that crap off and then eat the cookie.

[coribelle26]

Nov 7, 2013 19:46:47 GMT -5 nicbreeful said:

Was she bringing in leftovers that someone else gave her?

It was deliberate cookies.   The email was written like, "You're REALLY going to want to make sure you get down there and try these cookies, they're very special!"

(To be fair I was off today but I talked to my mom - my whole family works there - and she read me the email.  I think it's just as well that I wasn't there.)

[cst2cst]

I agree with you, but think it falls in the category of gender reveal parties. It is all over pinterest and Facebook as being a "cute" way to announce. Also, it seems people don't know the difference between their immediate family and near strangers.

[shoeless]

:/ ... any chance they are left over from a Baby shower?? However, if she announced in the e-mail that each cookie read "X is pregnant" then she's a certain kind of special.

[lime]

Yeah, that's just narcissistic, then.

I'd still eat a free cookie/cupcake. FYI. Including a menopause announcement.

[cleo29]

I think it is odd. I mean, you all knew already, right?

I can't see myself tooting my own horn that way.

[chickenlittle]

I'd eat any cookie that was free, but mock the shit out of her with my mouth full.

[nancybotwin]

Is it possible someone gave her the cookies and she brought them in as leftovers/to get rid of? Still not great but at least there is an explanation....?

[cleo29]

Nov 7, 2013 19:57:04 GMT -5 jjwritergirl said:

My office is all close knit but the idea of announcing at all is uncomfortable, much less in that obnoxious way. I get being excited because I am over the top excited... but really, coworkers don't care. Save it for sappy friends. Narcissistic/

I don't know how I missed your announcement or ticker. Congratulations!

[adhdfashion]

She sounds excited. This wouldn't bother me at all. Besides cookies and coffee break? Yes please!

[Deleted]

My friend brought in homemade baked goods to a department meeting and announced she "had a bun in the oven."  (Get it?  Get it?)

Nobody was amused because we all knew this meant we'd have more work when she'd be gone.

She was sad that nobody was excited.  LOL.

[bonquiqui]

Definitely narcissistic, but I would eat one lol

[Deleted]

Nov 7, 2013 20:03:28 GMT -5 toledo said:

When I found out that Matilda was a girl, I brought pink frosted cookies into work. Am I a narcissist?

I mean, duh, of course I am. But because of this?

No, because frosted cookies are filled with rainbows of crack and I don't care why anyone brings them.

[rugbywife]

She's excited.

This kind of stuff happens all the time in schools...we once had a teacher leave clues and we were supposed to figure out who was pregnant. It was all in how he worded it though because he said something like "there is another staff member expecting a baby this Spring" or something like that, nobody stopped to consider it could be a male staff. Another colleague left a baby doll with the dictionary open to the word bebe and we were supposed to guess that she was pregnant because she was the French teacher.

But I am sure my staff was odd.

[sonrisa]

I'd assume they were gifts or leftovers from a baby shower. I wouldn't take it personally.

[cleo29]

Nov 7, 2013 20:07:08 GMT -5 @misoangry said:

My friend brought in homemade baked goods to a department meeting and announced she "had a bun in the oven."  (Get it?  Get it?)

Nobody was amused because we all knew this meant we'd have more work when she'd be gone.

She was sad that nobody was excited.  LOL.

You make me think of Sophia on Golden Girls, except your stories take place in an office instead of Sicily.

I love it.

[leeann]

That's totally weird. I would be rolling my eyes at this.

[Deleted]

I have no problem with this.

[rugbywife]

Nov 7, 2013 20:11:02 GMT -5 @smace said:

Nov 7, 2013 20:08:21 GMT -5 rugbywife said:

She's excited.

This kind of stuff happens all the time in schools...we once had a teacher leave clues and we were supposed to figure out who was pregnant. It was all in how he worded it though because he said something like "there is another staff member expecting a baby this Spring" or something like that, nobody stopped to consider it could be a male staff. Another colleague left a baby doll with the dictionary open to the word bebe and we were supposed to guess that she was pregnant because she was the French teacher.

But I am sure my staff was odd.

That sounds like hell. I'm glad I don't know anyone that would pull this shit.

Really?  We loved it. Maybe it's because we all knew each other really well? There were about 50 of us at the school. Some of these people are my closest friends though. Or maybe I am weird. Whatever, it never bothered me, except I got frustrated because I sucked at solving the riddles. I would have loved cookies though.

[eddy]

I love cookies.

I enjoy people with good news sharing it through cookies. This is a-okay in my book.

[coribelle26]

Now that I think about it, I wonder if the cookies were to try to make people care and be excited and not just like, "Oh, okay, another one" since there have been so many. The one person had hyperemesis gravidarum and sent around an email explaining why she was missing so much work, and the other just told a few people and let it spread. Which I guess technically is what I did too, though an email went out about the miscarriage so that nobody would ask me about the baby and feel badly.

Still makes me roll my eyes waaaaaay far back though at least that makes a little bit of sense.

[Yankees21]

It's not something I'd do, but I definitely wouldn't turn down a cookie.